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A New Mexico jury on Tuesday found Meta Platforms liable in a child safety lawsuit, saying it knowingly harmed children's mental health and concealed its knowledge of child sexual exploitation on its social media platforms. Meta owns several social media platforms including Facebook, Whatsapp, Instagram and Threads. The landmark decision comes after nearly a seven-week trial

Danish Prime Minister Mette Frederiksen's hopes for a third term were further complicated on Tuesday, with her left-wing bloc winning the election yet failing to secure a majority. The bloc, which includes the Social Democrats, the center-right Venstre and Foreign Minister Lars Lokke Rasmussen's Moderates, took 84 seats in Denmark's 179-seat parliament. The right secured 77 seats

A massive whale remains stuck in shallow water just off Germany's Baltic Sea coast, after rescuers failed the latest attempt to save the animal, authorities said on Tuesday. The roughly 10-meter (32-foot) marine mammal was unable to free itself during the high tide overnight, a police spokesman said. Rescuers on Tuesday tried to free the whale by

After the first round of the French municipal elections in mid-March, the leader of France's far-right National Rally (RN), Jordan Bardella, spoke of an "historic victory" that would serve as a springboard for the 2027 presidential election. But the results of the second round of local elections, held on Sunday, have put a damper on that.

As the rich Arab states of the Persian Gulf are targeted by Iranian drones and missiles, protracted economic disruption brought on by the Iran war could threaten the hundreds of billions of dollars in remittances sent home every year by millions of South Asian foreign workers in the region. Most of them come from India

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On Monday and Tuesday, Lebanese and Israeli civilians once again woke to explosions as fighting between Israel and the Iran-backed Hezbollah group continued. "The situation is catastrophic," Sukaina Hemadah, a 37-year-old mother in Beirut, told DW. Since her house in in Beirut's southern suburb of Haret Hreik was demolished by an earlier Israeli air strike, she

NASA will cancel plans to deploy a space station in lunar orbit, instead focusing on the construction of a roughly $20 billion (about €17.25 billion) base on the moon's surface over the next seven years.  New NASA Administrator Jared Isaacman, who was sworn in at the US space agency in December, made the announcement at

Germany's Federal Public Prosecutor's Office said on Tuesday that two people have been taken into custody and accused of spying for Russia. The two suspects were a 45-year-old Romanian woman, who was detained in the northwestern German city of Rheine, and a 43-year-old Ukrainian man, who was arrested in the southeastern Spanish city of Elda.

After nearly a decade of stop-start negotiations, the EU-Australia free trade deal has finally crossed the finish line.   "Australia used to have Europhobia — now we have at least some Eurovision," Tim Harcourt, of the University of Technology Sydney, told DW. As recently as 2023, talks collapsed at the last hurdle, derailed by fierce opposition from Australian